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An entire nation effectively under house arrest for what is effectively the flu.

23 March 2020

Disproportionate response in the extreme and a nation being misled on a scale unprecedented in its history or disproportionate response in the extreme and a nation being misled and manipulated on a scale unprecedented in its history? […]

It is a virus not the virus.

21 March 2020

Most individuals will contract a virus from at least one of the four coronavirus genera many times throughout in their lifetime, with alphacoronaviruses HCoV-229E and HCoV-NL63, and betacoronaviruses HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-OC43 causing the common cold. Within the fours genera there are at least 23 specific known species of virus and with serotypes and probable species, […]

Stop nucleic acid testing. Start antibody testing.

19 March 2020

Testing for whether an individual has the virus – so-called nucleic acid or RT-PCR testing – is largely pointless. The virus may have been contracted previously – weeks or potentially months earlier – and simply be present as the individual is ‘asymptomatic’, as are many individuals who test positive. Dead virus cells as well as […]

How a virus spreads

16 March 2020

The main ways in which a virus spreads are: Airborne The virus is light enough to remain in and be carried along in the air. Contact Also known as direct contact, this requires actual physical contact between someone who is infected and someone who is not, such as touching skin. Droplet The virus is spread […]

It is not the worst health emergency to face the world.

14 March 2020

As politicians and expert scientific advisers queue up to fall over each other in upping their rhetoric and over-exaggerating their speculative claims & hyperbole, a little perspective is required. Simply looking at the bigger picture called ‘time’ and an observational period of more than a decade or so reveals the following genuine global emergencies: 1968 […]

This is not lassa virus or smallpox.

12 March 2020

The World Health Organisation’s own view of COVID-19 is that; “Most people infected will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.” Like the flu then. Those with underlying health conditions and/or a compromised immune system are at higher and even high risk. As they already were to seasonal flu or […]